Yesterday and today, I spent about half an hour deleting (by hand; MT is nice, but it lacks some sorely needed functionality) some of the most vile comment spam I’ve seen. Rape, incest and bestiality are this scumbag’s specialties, according to the comment titles and links. A WHOIS lookup on the domains entered in the url field gives this:
OrgName: Atrivo
OrgID: ATRIV
Address: 180 Golf Club Road #118
City: Pleasant Hill
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94523
Country: US
NetRange: 69.50.160.0 – 69.50.191.255
CIDR: 69.50.160.0/19
NetName: ATRIVOTECHNOLOGIES
NetHandle: NET-69-50-160-0-1
Parent: NET-69-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: MAIL.ATRIVO.COM
NameServer: PAVEL.ATRIVO.COM
Comment:
Comment: ## Comments listed here will appear in ARIN’s WHOIS database.
RegDate: 2003-06-04
Updated: 2003-08-21
NOCHandle: EKA4-ARIN
NOCName: Kacperski, Emil
NOCPhone: +1-925-550-3947
NOCEmail: emil@atrivo.com
OrgTechHandle: EKA4-ARIN
OrgTechName: Kacperski, Emil
OrgTechPhone: +1-925-550-3947
OrgTechEmail: emil@atrivo.com
The OrgTechHandle entry is another WHOIS link, which gives:
Name: Kacperski, Emil
Handle: EKA4-ARIN
Company: Atrivo
Address: 180 Golf Club Road #118
City: Pleasant Hill
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94523
Country: US
Comment:
RegDate: 2002-12-09
Updated: 2002-12-09
Phone: +1-925-550-3947 (Office)
Email: emil@atrivo.com
A google search turns up around a hundred hits, including this, this and this.
Does your mother know what you do for a living, you pustule on the asshole of humanity?
Are you familiar with the MT-Blacklist plugin? It’s really helped my spam problem significantly. In fact, I’ve had very few comment spams make it through its filter since I installed it a few months ago. And those that *do* make it through, I blacklist so that they’re never a problem again…
JD: thanks for the heads-up. I, of course, am clueless, but my better half knew all about MT Blacklist and has just installed it for me. Eat that, worthless spammer assholes!
Same guy hijacked my browser… how do I fix it??? the WHOIS is different for me tho. He now lives in Concord apparently
OrgName: Atrivo
OrgID: ATRIV
Address: 200 Paul Avenue
City: San Francisco
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94124
Country: US
NetRange: 69.50.160.0 – 69.50.191.255
CIDR: 69.50.160.0/19
NetName: ATRIVOTECHNOLOGIES
NetHandle: NET-69-50-160-0-1
Parent: NET-69-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: MAIL.ATRIVO.COM
NameServer: PAVEL.ATRIVO.COM
Comment:
Comment: Comments listed here will appear in ARIN’s WHOIS database.
RegDate: 2003-06-04
Updated: 2003-08-21
NOCHandle: EKA4-ARIN
NOCName: Kacperski, Emil
NOCPhone: +1-925-550-3947
NOCEmail: abuse@atrivo.com
OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE658-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse Department
OrgAbusePhone: +1-925-550-3947
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@atrivo.com
OrgNOCHandle: NETWO601-ARIN
OrgNOCName: Network Operations
OrgNOCPhone: +1-925-550-3947
OrgNOCEmail: noc@atrivo.com
OrgTechHandle: EKA4-ARIN
OrgTechName: Kacperski, Emil
OrgTechPhone: +1-925-550-3947
OrgTechEmail: abuse@atrivo.com
ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-01-15 19:10
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Spencer, I’ve no idea how you could fix that. Sorry mate, but I know about as much about all that computer voodoo as our pal Emil does about ethics. I see you’re on AOL, so I think your best bet would be to call their tech support.
I found the same hairbag sniffing around my site the other day. Banned him for good from even viewing the site.
I think those guys are making more damage than any looney world leader ever had.
They should ge punishment equal of the damage they made. In this case, I’d love to rip off their both hands. Yet, this would also prevent similar incidents to happen in future…